Pete Hegseth

I know what's wrong.

It's jacked up.

If I say something, I'm canned.

But in a new environment, I think there's still a core there that's not.

And here's the challenge.

In Battle for the American Mind, my other book,

was about the state of education in America, which is total, I mean, government schools are, you know this as well as anybody, horror shows.

But if you want to get out of them, you can.

You can move, you can homeschool, you can, you know, you got options for the most part.

We only have one Defense Department.

What's the option?

Abandon it?

And so if every patriot abandons it,

What does it look like and how is it utilized in the future in ways that are far more nefarious than foreign wars where we get entangled and we end up trying to nation-build for 20 years?

Really?

I mean, I think it's, and that's why I reserved judgment to say, I want to know what the world looks like in four years when you're 18.

Or would they conscript?

Or would they bring in pathway to citizenship conscript?

I mean, I think D.C.

will find a way, and it may be ugly, and it may... And so I share all of your skepticisms about that.